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Membership Information

     There are two types of memberships available. Regular Membership is open to all members of the family of Luther Morgan, the grandfather of Gen. John Hunt Morgan, and to all descendants, both direct and collateral, of those who served honorably in the Confederate States Army in the command of Gen. Morgan.  Associate Membership is extended to all other persons who are interested in maintaining Gen. Morgan's honored place in our nation's history.  A special invitation is made to the descendants of the Union soldiers who fought against Morgan's Men.  Just as the Union opponents were proud of their adversary role, so will be their descendants. Membership is available to all applicants, regardless of age. Only the associate and regular members aged 16 years or older have the right to vote on Association matters.

List of Morgan's Confederate Units

The following is a list of units that served under Gen. John Hunt Morgan. An ancestor that  served honorably in any of the below units, either under the command of Gen. John Hunt Morgan or his brother-in-law, Gen. Basil W. Duke, qualifies a descendant for regular membership in Morgan's Men Association.

Alabama

53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers

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Georgia

Company "A" 14th Battalion,
"Palmer's  Battery" Georgia Light Artillery

16th Georgia Cavalry Battalion ***

***(part of Vaughn's Brigade in Dept. of  West Virginia-East Tennessee, after April 1st 1864)

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Kentucky

2nd (Duke's) KY Cavalry

4th (Giltner's) KY Cavalry

5th (Smith's) KY Cavalry

6th (Grigsby's) KY Cavalry

7th (Gano's) KY Cavalry

8th (Cluke's) KY Cavalry

9th (Breckinridge's) KY Cavalry

10th (Johnson's) KY Cavalry

10th (Diamond's) KY Cavalry

11th (Chenault's) KY Cavalry

13th (Caudill's) KY Cavalry

14th (Morgan's) KY Cavalry

1st (Ward's/Kirkpatrick's) Batt. KY Cavalry

1st Batt. KY Mounted Rifles

2nd Batt. KY Cavalry

2nd Batt. KY Mounted Rifles

3rd Batt. KY Cavalry

3rd Batt. KY Mounted Rifles

Quirk's KY Scouts

Byrne's KY Horse Artillery

2nd Kentucky Infantry**

9th Kentucky Infantry**

** Those that participated in the Hartsville Raid of December 6th and 7th 1862

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Tennessee

4th (Murray's) Tennessee Cavalry

8th (Baxter Smith's) Tennessee Cavalry (Battles at Milton; Woodbury; Readyville)

9th (Ward's) Tennessee Cavalry

 McCann's Tennessee Cavalry Battalion

 Capt. Hugh L. W. McClung's Tennessee Light Artillery Co.

Ferguson's Tennessee Partisan Rangers

Independent companies of Captains Bledsoe and McMillen

Co A, 1st (McNairy's) Tennessee Cavalry Batt.****

****Capt. Hooper Harris and a detail of 25 men from Company served as guides for Morgan
through Tenn. into Ky. (May, 1862)

 

 Vaughn's Brigade

(On 4/1/64 was added to Gen. Morgan command of Dept. of Western VA & East Tenn.)

Consisted of:

 1st (Carter's) Tennessee Cavalry

 3rd (Lillard's) Tenn. Mounted Infantry

 39th Tenn. Mounted Infantry

 43rd Tenn. Mounted Infantry

 59th Tenn. Mounted Infantry

 12th Tenn. Cavalry Battalion

 16th Tenn. Cavalry Battalion

 16th Georgia Cavalry Battalion

 "detachments of 60th, 61st, and 62nd Tenn. Mounted Infantry Regiments"

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Texas

Two companies of Gano's Texas Rangers

Virginia

64th Virginia Mounted Infantry

Miscellaneous

 Independent companies of Captains Bledsoe and McMillen.

6th Batt. Confederate Cavalry

7th Batt. Confederate Cavalry

List of some Union Adversaries
Union units that were at the Battle of Buffington Island, Ohio:

  • 5th IND CAV (2 companies) (Lt. John O'Neil)

  • 11th KY CAV (Maj. Milton Graham)

  • 14th ILL CAV (Lt.Col. Horace Capron)

  • Henshaw's Independent(Ill.) Battery (Capt. E.Henshaw)

  • Several unattached units and local militia

  • 2nd OVC (Lt.Col.B. Purington)

  • 7th OVC (Col. Israel Garrard)

  • 8th Mich Cav (Lt.Col. Grover S. Wormer)

  • 9th Mich CAV (Lt. Col. George S. Acker)

  • 11th Mich Battery (one section) (Lt. Roy)

  • 1st KY CAV (Lt.Col. Silas Adams)

  • 2nd East TN Mounted Infantry (Col. Jas. Carter)

  • 45th Ohio Mounted Infantry (Col. Benjamin P. Runkle)

  • 3rd KY CAV (1 battalion) (Maj. Lewis Wolfley)

  • 8th KY CAV (1 battalion) (Lt. William A. Sasseen)

  • 9th KY CAV (1 battalion) (Maj. George W. Rue)

  • 12th KY CAV (Col. Eugene W. Crittenden)

  • 22nd IND Battery (1 section) (Capt. Benjamin F. Denning)

  • Athens County, Ohio Militia (1 comapnay) (Capt. J. Stedman)

  • Marietta, Ohio Militia (1 company) (Maj. Bloomfield)

  • Harmar Battery (1 section) (Lt. J. Young)

  • U.S. Gunboat Moose (Lt. Cmdr. LeRoy Fitch)

  • U.S. Steamer Imperial (Master T.J. Oakes)

  • U.S. Steamer Allegheny Belle (Master Nat Pepper)

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